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It is your attitude, and the suspicion that you are maturing the boldest designs against him, that imposes on your enemy. -- Frederick the Great |
USS Sims, lead ship of a class of 1570-ton destroyers, was built at Bath Maine. Commissioned in August 1939, she served in the Atlantic for the next two-and-a-half years, taking part in fleet training exercises, neutrality patrols and "short of war" operations. She transited to the Pacific in December 1941, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
As a unit of Task Force 17, built around USS Yorktown (CV-5), Sims operated in the Central and Southern Pacific during the first part of 1942. In early May, she was assigned to escort the oiler USS Neosho (AO-23) as the U.S. carriers maneuvered to confront a Japanese force advancing to attack Port Moresby, New Guinea. On 7 May 1942, in the early phases of the Battle of the Coral Sea, enemy carrier planes found the destroyer and oiler. In an overwhelming air attack, USS Sims was sunk and Neosho so badly damaged she had to be scuttled. |
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Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |